A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

A person jumped on the hood of a Waymo driverless taxi and smashed its windshield in San Franciscoโ€™s Chinatown last night around 9PM PT, generating applause before a crowd formed around the car and covered it in spray paint, breaking its windows, and ultimately set it on fire. The fire department arrived minutes later,... #waymo #sanfrancisco #usa #news

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/11/24069251/waymo-driverless-taxi-fire-vandalized-video-san-francisco-china-town

A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco

A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.

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@allenmichie @livus Can't tell if your comment is pro or con but, yes, Luddites, absolutely.

And that's a GOOD thing.

It's time we do what they did, two hundred years ago.

"...workers knows as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods."

#luddite #LudditeRevolutionNow

So, problem solved? We don't have factories anymore because of them?
@ampersandrew ๐Ÿ˜‚ thank you for missing the point entirely. Read up on it and come back and let's talk.
Not the first time I've heard of the luddites. It doesn't matter if you're the workers getting replaced by automation or a cable company getting replaced by streaming television; fighting against changes in the economy and technology is an unwinnable battle. The problem with self driving cars is that they're worse solutions for transportation than other, lower tech solutions.

@ampersandrew @livus @allenmichie

agree on self-drivings cars being bad solution to an actual problem

disagree on fighting against changes is an unwinnable battle

gotta have hope ๐ŸŒฑ

have a great day!

If fighting against the economy was winnable, we'd all still have cable, haha.

It's time we do what they did, two hundred years ago.

Lose?